Quote Originally Posted by perkam View Post
The 4870 GDDR5 should get around 12.5K in 3D 06 at stock, at least according to the specs (and not the fake numbers). As for performance, it should be able to equal the 8800 GT 512MB in the games in which the 3870 lagged behind.

We will also see larger performance gains from overclocking due to the greater number of shaders. Should be interesting, but not mindblowing.

Perkam
Don't you think you are underestimating it a bit perk? How is it that an architecture with virtually double the amount of features (shades, textures) etc, is supposed to become a mild update of its previous gen counterpart?

There is 0 chance that 4870 will be on the level of 8800 GT. It will come out to compete with 9800 GTX and nothing less. I'm quite surprised you expect so little from this card when you used to expect so much from R600 before it came out